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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012172471
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011864650
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011874411
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in prospect theory - to social welfare measurement. We …. -- prospect theory ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009691049
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Kari; … - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697690
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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory
Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2013
This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account reference …-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in Prospect Theory - to social welfare measurement. We … ; poverty ; inequality ; welfare measurement ; vulnerability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700305
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Poverty and distribution : twenty years ago and now
Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003837896
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Measuring unfair inequality : reconciling equality of opportunity and freedom from poverty
Hufe, Paul; Kanbur, Ravi; Peichl, Andreas - 2020
Empirical evidence on distributional preferences shows that people do not judge inequality as problematic per se but that they take the underlying sources of income differences into account. In contrast to this evidence, current measures of inequality do not adequately reflect these normative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012236841
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912680
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Measuring Unfair Inequality : Reconciling Equality of Opportunity and Freedom from Poverty
Hufe, Paul - 2018
Rising income inequalities are widely debated in public and academic discourse. In this paper, we contribute to this debate by proposing a new family of measures of unfair inequality. To do so, we acknowledge that inequality is not bad per se, but that its underlying sources need to be taken...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012915714